THE INDOCTRINATION DIMENSION OF REPRESSION: TELEVISED CONFESSIONS IN CHINA*

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.17813/1086-671x-28-3-323

Diana Fu

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Abstract

Public confessions are repression spectacles that have appeared in different regimes and historical periods. This study theorizes an indoctrination dimension of repression—the turning of punishment into a control tool that displays the regime’s apparent transformative power. Whereas repression is often defined by its inhibiting dimension, this study argues that authorities stage repressive spectacles not only to deter further dissent but also as an instrument of “thought reform,” a governance tradition in China. The study finds two indoctrinating narratives based on an interpretive analysis of a dataset of televised confessions in China. First, confessions show a doctrine of political dissident as traitorous and immoral. Second, they convey a doctrine of rectification that displays the seemingly transformative power of the regime, one in which transgressors perform law-abiding citizens. These findings advance the conceptual refinement of repression by analyzing its indoctrination dimension.

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镇压的灌输维度:中国的电视认罪

公开忏悔是出现在不同政权和历史时期的镇压场面。这项研究将镇压的教化维度理论化——把惩罚变成一种控制工具，显示出政权明显的变革力量。虽然镇压通常被定义为抑制维度，但本研究认为，当局上演镇压场面不仅是为了阻止进一步的异议，也是作为“思想改革”的工具，这是中国的一种治理传统。根据对中国电视认罪数据集的解释性分析，该研究发现了两种灌输式的叙述。首先，忏悔录表明，政治异见者是叛徒和不道德的。其次，它们传达了一种整顿的信条，显示了这个政权看似变革的力量，在这个政权中，违法者扮演守法公民的角色。这些发现通过分析其灌输维度，推进了压抑概念的细化。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.